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=__Was Lyching legal or accepted?__= N**o lyching wasn't legal but it was accepted by white people especcially the KKK. It was illegal but lychings happened all the time especially in the South. The KKK lyched black people because they wanted to scare them and thats why it was open to the public and sometimes important black leaders would be lyched.**
 * -Mike Nader**

= = =__What Is Lynching?__= ===Lynching is a form of execution commonly used on African Americans during the late 19th and ealy 20th centuries. Lynching has existed since before slavery. During the time of reconstruction lynching became more popular. Some times random mobs would lynch African Americans, this is an example of vigilantism. -Julia R===

= = =**__Why Were African Americans Lynched?__**= ===African Americans were lynched for many reasons. One of the reasons was that they were black, and most white southerners hated blacks. The South lost the civil war and they wanted to vent their anger on something. Unfortunately the people that they hated the most were African Americans. Hate groups such as the KKK(Ku Klux Klan) only made things worse by organizing groups to go out and lynch people. These groups of people were called lynch mobs. Today, the KKK is less powerful than it used to be. Now there are only small groups and individuals that make up the KKK.===



Links

 * History of Lynching in the United States**
 * http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/ACLAText/USLynch.html

About Lynching** [|**http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lynching.htm**] http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/k/ku_klux_klan/index.html
 * Ku Klux Klan

David S.**

=__Were Lynchings Open To The Public?__=

===Yes, lynchings were often open to the public. They were called "public executions". Lynchings were sometimes even advertised in news papers. Some lynchings weren't planned there for couldn't be advertised, but lynchings were made public as often as possible. Often times white families including children would go to a lynching. -Julia R===